Quality of flume vinyl pressing1/21/2024 Bill Smith Records - El Segundo, Calif.The Vinyl Factory - Hayes, Middlesex, UK.Pallas Group Worldwide - Diepholz, Germany. ![]() Master Media Productions, GmbH - Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany.Gramofonove Zavody Media - Loděnice, Czech Republic.I bet there are others in that list that operate the same way. I would be interested in anyone else's thoughtsĬlick to expand.I believe it. Jamey Johnson - 3Lp set of his " the guitar Song ". Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted fantasy - crappy noisy pressing Iron and Wine - Kiss each other Clean -Warner US release, but pressed in Germany. full of pops, crackles and distortion at the beginning of the LP that is apressing fault Tom Jones - Praise & Blame - UMG Nashville this has severve pops and ticks and almost digital buzzing - if you look at the vinyl you can sortb of see hairline marks in the vinyl. It is as if the stamper missed and went into the first track Universal Music.Ģnd LP has a pressing fault which makes it unplayable at the beginninng of the side 3. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty hate machine 2LP set. This is a list of my vinyl just purchased from Amazon. I just do not get the number of bad vinyl pressings from the UK and Europe. It is no wonder Warners moved most of their vinyl releases to Germany as they actually have quailty control. Poor QC and just crappy pressings with pressing fault's, scratches and plain noisy vinyl. He has lectured on mastering at various institutions including the London Electronic Music Event, Prism's Mic to Mastering tour, Alchemea College in London, and dBS Music Technology college in Bristol.Outside of RTI and maybe a couple of smaller US vinyl pressing plants, it seems that most of the USA pressing plants are absolute crap. He mastered the vinyl release for the number one album Drones by Muse at half speed, as well as remastering Peter Gabriel's first four solo albums and his upcoming album i/o.Ĭolton was awarded the Music Producers Guild (MPG) Mastering Engineer of the year award in 2013. I know that there are not many vinyl pressing plants remaining in the US and UK. Sure more and more vinyl is being released on 180g and upwards, but that counts for zero if the basics are not right. ![]() Colton is one of the few mastering engineers in the world to offer half speed vinyl mastering, a technique which, although time-consuming, can offer much improved vinyl sound quality. Or just a poor quality pressing in general. In 2012 Colton rejoined Alchemy Mastering as a director and engineer, mastering James Blake's Mercury Prize-winning second album Overgrown, Hot Chip's Why Make Sense?, and Leftfield's Alternative Light Source. He began his mastering career as an engineer at Porky's Mastering in London, run by George 'Porky' Peckham in 1997 where he worked with a diverse range of artists from Aphex Twin's Rephlex Records to Kylie Minogue, and has also worked at Optimum Mastering, Alchemy Soho and AIR Studios where he cut the vinyl masters for Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto, remastered George Michael's Faith, and worked on the debut album by James Blake. ![]() He has mastered recordings for artists such as Muse, Coldplay, James Blake, George Michael, Hot Chip, Gary Numan, Peter Gabriel, Flume, Erasure, and Depeche Mode. Matt Colton (born 30 March 1975) is an English mastering engineer and member of the mastering group of the Music Producers Guild.
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